In news that would no doubt send Mrs. Patmore, Downton's Luddite cook, into a panic, PBS and WGBH announced Monday that the audience for the Season 4 premiere grew by 52% to an audience of 15.5 million, once DVR viewership over the following week was factored in. (And here she thought electric mixers were a force to be reckoned with!) In terms of the size of its time-shifted audience, that puts the "Downton Abbey" premiere on par with NBC's "The Blacklist," which gets around 6 million DVR viewers.

And that number is all the more impressive given that the Jan. 5 premiere, which drew 10.2 million sets of eyeballs, had already set a record as the highest-rated drama premiere in PBS history and marked a 39% uptick from the average audience for the Season 3 premiere.

In related news, "Downton Abbey" also performs well online, where the Season 4 premiere was streamed nearly 1.2 million times in the week after the initial broadcast — though we're guessing the Dowager Countess wasn't one of those logging in to watch.

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